Where is you buying comfort zone??

I have spent over $1k on a single knife, and that is getting right up to where I am getting a little antsy.

Now, 5 years ago I would have said $400 is getting at the point where I am concerned about my habit.

Ask me again in 5 years....

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0-100 is my "hardly even think twice about it" range

100-150 is my "lemme think about it a little, but if I like it, I'll buy it" range

150-200 is where I start having to seriously consider whether I want the knife

200 is typically my upper limit for normal purchases. If I go above this its because I just HAVE to have the knife.

Anything beyond is only for CRKs or grails
 
I started off buying 20-50$ knives. I always told myself i would never spend over $100 on a knife. Eventually when you get more into higher end knives, you have no choice. $100 turned into buying a $200 knife. Then a $300 knife. I just bought my first hinderers and spent over $500 a piece on 2. Im probably at my peak now. I dont see myself getting into customs. I would say im maxed out at $550. Cant see myself spending more then that.
 
My comfort zone is $100-$500, but is based on what I consider to be a possible Grail for EDC.
 
My max was $1,200 but it had to be an epic knife. These days though I start sweating at $275. Anything more than that and its just not worth it to me. I simply dont enjoy anything over $300. I dont even want to use it at that point and to just have it sit is pointless. With a daughter in school and no biological mom i just cant justify the added expense for a slightly different handle shape and marginal performance increase if any. Id rather buy my little girl the latest toy i catch her looking at yet never once asks me to buy. My time for expensive toys has past. And I enjoy the smile on her face more than any brief excitement a knife could ever offer.
 
When my wife says, "have you lost your mind?" I'm good. When she says, "have you lost your f'ing mind?" I'm bumping up against my limit.
 
Lately it has been around $600, but I don't buy new knives that often. My last new knife was a Spyderco Rubicon which was well within my zone.
 
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Krissig12 said:
0-100 is my "hardly even think twice about it" range

100-150 is my "lemme think about it a little, but if I like it, I'll buy it" range

150-200 is where I start having to seriously consider whether I want the knife

200 is typically my upper limit for normal purchases. If I go above this its because I just HAVE to have the knife.

Anything beyond is only for CRKs or grails
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Ditto. :thumbup:
 
Just typically, probably no more than 500, and honestly 500 would be like okay i'm gonna buy this one knife after saving for 6 months and then buy nothing else in the realm of knives for a solid year lol
 
I have a hard time forking out over $100 on anything. All my CRK's and other high-end knives have just been "screw it, Why not" purchases. I haven't regretted any of them.
 
Krissig12 said:
0-100 is my "hardly even think twice about it" range

100-150 is my "lemme think about it a little, but if I like it, I'll buy it" range

150-200 is where I start having to seriously consider whether I want the knife

200 is typically my upper limit for normal purchases. If I go above this its because I just HAVE to have the knife.

Anything beyond is only for CRKs or grails
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This is me as well, $150+ I have to love the knife to pull the trigger. When I go up to the $200 mark I automatically think not much more for and usually choose CRK etc.
 
about 400$ and i need to see some details like non-traditional pivots, a hand-rub finish on the blade, nice steel, or any combination of these complications :) Below that, i still want performance.
 
$1.2k for a folder and $800 for a fixed blade are the highest I have gone.

Now, max on a folder is about $500, fixed blade about the same. I'm bending that one on a fixed I have coming with a Paul Long sheath. Does a add a bit to the price, but damn is it worth it.

In the end though, it's only money. :cool:
 
I don't care much about money, but I really don't like worrying about it either so my limit is just however much I can afford to blow on a knife I don't need at any given time. Here recently that # has been hovering around the $150 mark.

For some reason my fiancé incists on purchasing the children new clothes as they grow... and food. Even after I mentioned the new Spyderco Sprint run... Some people.
 
If the knife speaks to me enough, I'll buy it no matter what the price is. I'd say maybe $3,000 would make me a little hesitant, but I've spent about $2500 in the last month or so on only 5 knives. So with that said, one knife for $3,000 wouldn't make me that worried as long as I truly felt it was worth it.
 
My "comfort zone" number has also risen quite a bit over the years. I remember thinking that $35 was a lot to pay for a Tenacious. Now I own a large Seb 21 and William Henry E10 so I guess the top of my range is somewhere around their price range.

Still, a number of factors go into my determination of "value". Anything over $200 has to be something very special. Most of the latest modern folders on the market today are same-ol'-same-ol'. I'm not going to fork out $200+ for "just another Spyderco", for example, even with the latest premium steel. To me they're all starting to look alike. And very few are any more attractive than, for instance, my beloved Sage or PM which cost half the amount.

Quite frankly I find more value in traditional slip joints. I have no problem dropping between $200 to $400 on a beautiful pattern done in carbon steel and mammoth ivory.
 
My price and value "guide" keeps changing with experience. For example, I consider the new ZT 0770CF in M4 to be kind of expensive for me, but I am really taking a hard look at it because I love my 0770CF in Elmax.

Added: What upped my price was when I started buying the larger GEC and Northwoods knives which all run over $100 each and I do like stag.

I'm open with customs, but I only have custom fixed blades at the moment. I was really really temped to buy a custom fixed blade for $850 at Blade a couple years ago from one of the Masters. I know it was a excellent price, I just was having a problem letting go that many clams that day on a knife that I would likely be afraid to use.
 
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